Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 428

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Necromancer School’s Summoning Genius Chapter 428
The battle between the dragon, the Legion Commander, and the Saint had begun.
As Simon summoned a mummy, Karisa in turn unleashed her own forces. With a Cold Breath, she covered a stretch of desert in ice, and from that frozen ground arose an ice monster.
On the ground below, the mummy and ice monster clashed in close combat. In the sky above, the ice dragon Karisa and the white dragon Lan exchanged breaths.
Blue and white breaths collided repeatedly overhead. Their scattered debris rained down, affecting the tide of battle among the forces fighting below.
“Persistent!”
Star-shaped pupils flared in Rette’s eyes as she rode atop Lan.
She pressed her index and middle fingers together, then swept her palm downward. Meteor Shower after Meteor Shower fell from the sky.
Boom!
Boom!
Countless craters erupted across the desert. The sheer force made the very earth tremble.
Karisa writhed like an eel in midair, weaving through the falling meteors.
[Hey! Little one!]
Herseba’s voice screamed from the sky.
[Insane! Someone stop her! There won’t be a dungeon left standing!]
Because Herseba had spoken aloud rather than through thought-communication, Rette understood immediately and halted her barrage.
Even within the dungeon, her power reached such magnitude.
Simon’s intention in using the World of Sand had been to cut off Karisa’s escape and allow Rette freedom in wielding her Authority, but Rette’s firepower was more than the dungeon could withstand.
[What meaning does strength have when one cannot even control it!]
Karisa’s mouth twisted with contempt as she unleashed another Cold Breath.
Lan too countered with a Holy Breath, but her strain was beginning to show. Lan was still a Divine Beast in her growth stage, not yet in adult form.
“Get me within arm’s reach, and that little creature dies in a single blow.”
Rette raised her arm.
“All your fluttering about means nothing!”
Whoosh!
A single meteor descended like an arrow, tearing the night sky in two as it hurtled downward. Karisa twisted her head nimbly and evaded it.
“Useless—”
La Corde.
Karisa’s body was suddenly pulled toward the falling meteor.
Rette had triggered a gravity-based White Magic spell using the meteor’s Holy power as an anchor.
[What—!]
Crash!
The comet struck the ground, leaving a massive crater.
Karisa, dragged into its path, barely managed to avoid plummeting directly into the impact.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
As if waiting for this moment, hundreds of bandages erupted from the desert floor, coiling around Karisa’s body.
“Nice! Rette!”
Simon came sprinting forward, the Sword of Ruin in hand. The aerial battle was difficult to join, but the ground was their domain.
Simon leaped up, landing on Karisa’s thrashing tail. He drove the greatsword deep between her scales.
With this.
“Forward!”
Simon charged ahead, the Sword of Ruin still embedded in Karisa’s body. Karisa screamed in agony.
Crash!
Showers of ice spikes poured down from Karisa. Simon ran forward with the sword still driven into her, with little space to dodge.
“Help me, Pier!”
[Krrkrk! Here we go, boy!]
Every bone in Simon’s body except his right arm, right shoulder, and shoulder armor separated from him and transformed into Pier’s form.
“Catch!”
With only his left arm remaining, Pier caught the longsword Simon tossed to him from his Subspace.
[Brings back the old days!]
Running in perfect sync with Simon’s stride, Pier began to swing his blade.
Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!
With his left hand wielding the sword, he cut down every shard of ice flying toward Simon.
“Hraaaaaa!”
With his right hand gripping the Sword of Ruin, he charged forward.
The same footfall, the same speed.
It was near-perfect synchronization.
[Why—!]
Even as Karisa cried out in pain, her wide eyes fixed on Pier with rage.
[“That woman” too! And you as well! Why do you immortals bother helping such worthless mortals!]
[Krakakaka! Foolish wyrm!]
Pier’s voice rang out like a bell as he shattered every shard of Karisa’s ice.
[Because mortals are brief, their lives burn with meaning and ferocity!]
Pier dissolved back into Bone Armor, latching itself onto Simon’s body.
Now Simon gripped the Sword of Ruin in both hands.
[You, who have lived for eons—can you say you have ever known even a single moment of—]
Simon stopped in his tracks and drew the greatsword forward.
[such burning struggle?]
Swoooooosh!
A brilliant arc of white light swept from Simon’s midline and struck Karisa across the face. The ice dragon vomited blood and crashed to the ground.
“Herseba! Seal her!”
At Simon’s cry, elongated golden structures rose from the earth, beginning to pin down the fallen Karisa. Mummies that poured through the doors wrapped their bandages around her body.
“Finally got her.”
Rette smiled as she approached riding on La Corde.
[Heh. Hahahaha……!]
Even as the golden structures tightened around her body, Karisa laughed.
[Foolish! Look to the sky!]
Shrieeeeeeee!
Simon and Rette looked up.
Just as in the snowfield outside the dungeon, bitter cold was bearing down upon them.
‘Why is there eternal winter inside Herseba’s dungeon……? Wait—’
Crack!
Snap!
Space was tearing apart. Simon cried out urgently.
‘Herseba! Are you alright?’
[Damn! That dragon bastard……!]
Her voice, carried through thought, trembled violently.
[She’s the same type as me……!!]
Her words cut off there.
Crash!
The World of Sand shattered completely, and all the golden cities and mummy legions vanished. Simon and Rette were swept from the World of Sand like debris caught in a current.
The dizzying world around them twisted and inverted.
When consciousness returned, they stood outside—in Escaille Village.
“Shon!”
“The Saint has returned to us as well!”
People had come outside. They’d emerged once the eternal winter ceased after Karisa was dragged into Herseba’s dungeon.
Rette shouted.
“What are you doing! Everyone back inside, now!”
Roooooar!
Free at last, Karisa soared into the air and bellowed. The clear, peaceful sky was swallowed whole by bitter cold and blizzard.
In the same breath, Cold Breath rippled from her jaws and poured toward the villagers.
“Dammit!”
Rette pushed off the ground and raised Divine Barrier once more to block it.
[I acknowledge it! Mortals! You are beings who can bring even me to death!]
In that moment, Karisa wheeled about and fled.
[An unexpected development—but I shall accelerate my plan! Now, this very instant, I shall blanket this world in my power!]
Karisa broke through the eternal winter and began her escape. Rette withdrew her barrier and climbed onto La Corde.
“Si—no, Shon! You guard the people here! I’ll pursue her!”
With only that farewell, Rette shot off in pursuit. The chase between the two dragons began before Simon could even speak.
A moment later, light rippled and the ground trembled—signs that Rette was using her Authority.
Simon first roused Herseba.
‘Herseba! Are you okay? Wake up!’
[Ugh! My head! The pain! Ow!]
Herseba, now returned to her staff form, opened her eyes.
‘Why did you suddenly lift the dungeon?’
[That bastard. She’s the same type of Dungeon Lord as me!]
Herseba continued in a strained voice.
[I have the Authority to create a dungeon and summon my opponent inside it—but she has the Authority to turn someone else’s world into her own dungeon!]
‘Then the reason the dungeon collapsed was…….’
Right. I layered my dungeon over his and shattered it. We’re fundamentally incompatible. Ugh!
‘You’ve done well, Herseba. Leave the rest to me.’
Simon opened a Subspace to give Herseba a chance to rest.
[Remember this, little one.]
Herseba spoke with grave intensity.
[If you can’t stop his rampage, this entire world might be swallowed by eternal winter. You have to catch him now, before he flees somewhere we can’t reach!]
‘……I’ll remember.’
With Herseba secured in the Subspace, Simon prepared for the next phase.

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The Roca Region.
“Snow! It’s snowing!”
“All of a sudden?”
The Velesgo Region.
“It’s snowing, Father!”
“Snow in Velesgo? The world has truly gone mad.”
The Gali Region.
“What is this? What on earth is happening?”
The Frost Dragon Karisa’s Authority was already rippling across the continent. It was still in its infancy, but the true extent of that power’s reach remained uncertain.
Thud!
Simon was riding hard on Akalion.
Meteors rained down and the earth trembled. In the sky, the roars of two dragons echoed.
‘Just as I thought—Rette!’
Rette was holding Karisa better than Simon had expected, but her holiness wasn’t infinite. And judging by the way Karisa moved to evade the meteors falling from above, she wouldn’t let herself be hit easily.
‘I need to get there faster!’
There had never been a moment when the power of flight was more desperately needed. The Ancient Undead Achemous had wings, but he was engaged elsewhere in combat.
Whine!
“What is it? Akalion.”
Simon looked ahead. A sheer cliff loomed before them, with a road visible at some distance beyond it.
Going around it would waste precious time.
“Akalion! You can fly, right?”
Simon activated the Divine Magic Circle that Rette had drawn on his back, and the magical circles on Akalion’s four legs blazed to life as well.
Whine……!
Akalion’s response was hesitant. Simon stroked his head reassuringly.
“You flew before! You can do this!”
Whiney!
“No, you can do it! Believe in your own strength!”
Simon rummaged through his Subspace and pulled out a fruit.
“Remember this?”
Whine!
Akalion’s eyes gleamed.
“Recapture that feeling from before!”
Simon hurled the fruit hard beyond the cliff’s edge.
“Even if you fall, I’ll catch you! Let’s go!”
Whineeey!
Pound-pound-pound-pound-pound-pound!
Akalion kicked up dust as he charged forward.
Boom!
And then he leaped, pushing off from the ground.
His massive body shot upward into the air, and holy sparks crackled across his four legs.
“Yes!”
Simon cheered.
“Keep moving your legs like this, treading through the empty……!”
Snap!
But Akalion snatched the apple mid-flight too quickly. Without his target, his four hooves flailed helplessly in the void.
Whine!
In the end, Akalion failed to clear the cliff and plummeted.
Whine! Whiney!
Despite his massive frame, he was terrified.
Simon recovered Akalion’s holiness and shrunk him down to a manageable size, cradling him against his chest, then stretched out his right arm.

Simon sent out an emerald-colored rope and fixed it to the cliff’s edge.
But then.
-Meow!
-Mew!
As Akalion shrank, Hayangyi and Kkamangyi tumbled away from him.
“What the—! How long have you two been out here?”
They must have been hiding in Akalion’s fur the whole time, afraid of being scolded if they came out unbidden.
Simon yelped in alarm and canceled the Cloud. Then he threw himself into the air, clamping Akalion against his waist as he fell.
‘Cloud!’
From Simon’s arm, an emerald flash shot out again, snatching the two kittens. Simon braced his legs against the cliff face and conjured Darkness, grinding himself to a halt with friction.
Screeeeeech!
Pressing his feet hard against the steep rock and using the drag to brake, Simon now opened a Subspace.
‘Gate Opening!’
The blunt tentacle-blades of his Overlord extruded and wound safely around Simon’s body, their edges turned away.
His fall finally stopped.
“Phew.”
Soon, with the Overlord’s help, he hauled the Divine Beasts back up the cliff.
-Meow!
-Mew! Mew!
Akalion, now in his small form, wore a somewhat dejected expression as he hung his head, but the two kittens—oblivious to any wrongdoing—bounced about merrily, begging for Holiness.
“You two really……!”
Simon was just about to scold the kittens when.
“…….”
-Mew!
-Mew! Mew!
The kittens weren’t begging for Holiness after all.
They were frantically gesturing and prancing about as if desperately trying to tell him something.
“…….”
Something flickered in Simon’s eyes. At last, he got to his feet.
“All right.”
He’d already lost distance from Rette and Karisa anyway, and if he couldn’t succeed here, there was zero chance of catching up.
“Let’s try it. Objectification.”

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